Grouper gets away from that whole “song” thing on tour of European churches

17.01.12

Grouper, an ambient singer songwriter who is both from Portland and incredible, has built up a quite a name for herself. With music of primal resonance that draws on shoegaze, folk and drone, on her pair of albums ‘A I A: Alien Observer’ and ‘A I A: Dream Loss’ [Yellow Electric, 2011], Liz Harris has made some of the most deeply affecting songs of modern times.

So, it is with a sense of excited trepidation that we announce her next dates will turn her back on this song-based music, under the title ‘Violet Replacement’. A show made up of “tape loops, field recordings and submerged atmospherics” and presented in “naturally resonant and specially customised locations”. Originally commissioned by New York’s project room, a CD of the show will be released by Liz Harris’s label Yellow Electric. Full European dates below.